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Il canto di Calliope

by Natalie Haynes (Goodreads Author)

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― H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

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“There was, she admitted, something wonderful about this. Storytelling was a fundamental impulse of humanity, as natural to the mind and body as eating and sleeping and falling in love. It made sense that everyone believed they could do it, because everyone who had ever been comforted by a story, or loved a character, or lived within a world of imagination, held a story world inside them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Better in Black

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